ME Professors Alice Agogino and Grace O’Connell have been awarded the CITRIS and the Banatao Institute’s 2017 Core Seed Funding. The funding was awarded for their project “Million Hands: Prosthetic Hands for Children Through and Open Source Platform, 3D Printers and Sensors.” With this project, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and Davis will collaborate to develop a modular platform that is “1) customizable to the many hand shapes that are possible as a result of the above conditions, 2) capable of natural movement, and 3) strong enough to perform most daily tasks.”
Congratulations, professors!